My Welcome

Introducing Myself Hello conscientious readers. My name is Jason and I have never been circumcised (not clitoral circumcision, obviously). Now I shall offer a hello to those of you (readers) who are not so conscientious (the conscientious ones will have stopped reading). I am six feet and four inches tall if I stand on my fingernail (it's really long and quite strong, too), otherwise I am approximately five feet and some number of inches (a natural number, of course). Today's Maths Lesson What is a natural number? You probably don't want to know, but I'll tell you anyway. A natural number is a positive integer (1, 2, 3, ...). For more information, see MathWorld (you'll thank me). Today's Grammar Lesson Today's grammer lesson is on acronyms. An acronym is an abbreviation composed of the first letters of other words so that the abbreviation itself is a word. For example: CRASSH: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities Aids: Acquired immuno deficiency syndrome Acronyms are treated just like ordinary words in a sentence, and may be composed of all capital letters, or of an initial capital followed by small letters. Note: The term acronym is not to be confused with the term initialism, which is an abbreviation composed of the first letters of other words where the abbreviation itself is not a word. For example: RAA, which stands for the Royal Automobile Association. Now that we all know what the difference between an initialism and an acronym is, there's no excuse!